Get Dilly to make you that boiled rice every night after your brainwork.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Such a train of reasoning would probably be regarded even now as cogent by a large portion of the human species.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He had known that Moscow would be abandoned not merely since his interview the previous day with Kutúzov on the Poklónny Hill but ever since the battle of Borodinó, for all the generals who came to Moscow after that battle had said unanimously that it was impossible to fight another battle, and since then the government property had been removed every night, and half the inhabitants had left the city with Rostopchín’s own permission.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

By Roy E. Nolte & Alfred Barratt.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Mawe describes at great length the diamond diggings of his day, and as human nature varies little, it is probable that his picture would be recognized even now as a truthful likeness of those localities and their inhabitants.
— from Stories About Famous Precious Stones by Adela E. (Adela Elizabeth Richards) Orpen

The colour is clear and clean, and the pattern cheerful without fussily calling attention to itself, while its cheapness, 1 s. a piece, would allow of its being renewed every now and then should it become shabby, and the paint can be blue, and a blue and white cretonne to harmonise with it can be had at Burnett’s for 9½
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

breathed Roy, every nerve athrill.
— from The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly by Margaret Burnham

Among other beverages which have from time to time been produced from the cacao was a fermented drink much in vogue at the Mexican Court, to which it appears from the accounts of the conquest that Montezuma was addicted, as "after the hot dishes (300 in number) had been removed, every now and then was handed to him a golden pitcher filled with a kind of liquor made from cacao, which is very exciting."
— from The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa by Brandon Head

Helene, a stranger to such society, was content to listen, merely interjecting a remark or brief reply every now and then.
— from A Love Episode by Émile Zola

Illustrated by Ruth E. Newton, assisted by Mabel Horn & Betty Carter.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

© 25Apr32; B155267. Roy E. Nolte (A); 18Jan60; R250592.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office